Example sentences of "that [pers pn] have be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ All that has held us together for years is that I 've been working for you . |
| 3 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
| 4 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 5 | When I replied that I had been fighting for the extra 200,000 I had managed to achieve , I was remonstrated with for having put the business at risk . |
| 6 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 7 | ‘ It is obvious that I have been exploited for propaganda purposes in a film in which I should never have allowed myself to appear , ’ he bitterly commented afterwards . |
| 8 | Well , I agreed not to speak more than half an hour , but I see that I have been speaking for a little longer than forty-five minutes . |
| 9 | He confirmed that she had been invited for both the church service and the lunch . |
| 10 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 11 | Checking through her notes , the doctor saw that she had been treated for vaginal thrush on several occasions . |
| 12 | And in Amabel 's experience it had always been the wife who complained of it , Ethel Lord , for instance , fretting herself into a decline , or very nearly , when her husband had taken to spending so much time in Leeds ; Maria Colclough turning to religion because her man emerged so rarely from his counting house ; even strident Lizzie Braithwaite complaining that she had been neglected for the sake of the business . |
| 13 | And Anjelica Huston returned to her own home saying that she had been humiliated for the very last time . |
| 14 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 15 | It was her nail scissors that she 'd been searching for days , lost under the hearthrug and pressing into her hip ; and the cry was also her virginity , small and bewildered and gone . |
| 16 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
| 17 | She says that she 's been flying for three years . |
| 18 | Now that she 's been nominated for an Oscar , it would be natural for there to be competition between them . |
| 19 | Erm it 's an exercise that you 've been asking for . |
| 20 | The , the direct debits that you 've been paying for years but you 're not sure where they go to , that sort of thing ? |
| 21 | I refer to your recent application for the above position and am pleased to advise that you have been selected for interview . |
| 22 | Further to your recent interview for the above post , I am pleased to advise that you have been selected for short-list interview . |
| 23 | I refer to your recent application for the above position and am pleased to inform you that you have been selected for interview . |
| 24 | Imagine that you have been studying for 20 years for a qualification that will change your life , or waiting the same length of time to hear about a job you have applied for , the only job you have ever really wanted . |
| 25 | ‘ Your uncle Orrin tells us that you have been missing for months , not travelling with the Parslows as we thought , and when you surface again you have the gall to question us . ’ |
| 26 | Something that we 've been looking for for months and months ! |
| 27 | And what this actually came out on was this overall health and safety assessment that we 've been doing for G P erm , we 've actually just filed that overall group focused on the the branches as a potential issue and I know it 's been very su su successful on a number of times . |
| 28 | Well obviously there is change and one of the things that we 've been doing for International Women 's celebrations during March , because we 're having a whole month of activities , is |
| 29 | But I mean , one of the things that we 've got on with at the moment is that we 've been saying for ages , you 've got to get your you 've got to get us involved at design stage . |
| 30 | I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on . |